Death towards Resurrection

Alina Paraschiv

In Iair’s family – a ruler of the Capernaum synagogue – a daughter was born; God’s
blessing seems to have rested over this home; that child represented the source of
happiness, hope and sense for her parents, a perpetual reason of kindled gratitude to God.
Concurrently with that happy event, somewhere else in Israel, the ordeal of an illness
without remedy began for a woman.
After twelve years, of growing up for the girl and of wasting of her being for the woman,
respectively, they both met, paradoxically and unexpectedly, in different ways, the some

God: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:
6) Bearing the mark of an imminent death, the woman directs her steps towards the God
of Life, and, with maximum discretion, knowing that she will cure, she touches the edge
of his cloak (Luke 8: 44). At the some time, as if rejecting the perspective of becoming
another ill woman in the body of Israel, the girl falls asleep (Luke 8: 52).
Who is the daughter of the synagogue’s ruler compared to the ill woman? She is the
symbol of humanity reaching a superior state of the communion with God, a humanity
unwilling to grow in a wold without God, awaiting for the Liberator and not merely for a
common doctor. In the girl’s sleeping one hears the quietness of the Commandment Low
and the old song of the new harmony, in which the whole building is joined together and
rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. (Ephesians 2: 21)
The experience of the girl anticipates a new way of being, a way of dying, of dying
towards resurrection.